What grows in the in-between time?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
A good friend just moved to Scotland. My monthly dancing ‘date’ in fact. As I thought about her during the weekend of her trans-Atlantic move and pondered heading out to the dance floor on my own, I wondered about in-between time. During a big move there’s a time when one has no electronic connections. Land […]
Tags: in-between, scotland, time, wild time
Fall on my knees
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
It’s late at night now. I’ve gone to bed once but got up as the words to this post were calling. I was supposed to spend this weekend on my own. Blissfully alone. Quietly alone. Then I got a call early this morning that one of my kids was sick and would I come and […]
Tags: allison russell, change management, gay rights, harvey milk, milk, o holy night, scouts, sean penn, stuart mclean, vinyl cafe
When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time and Lynnika Butler’s article […]
Tags: africa, change management, dyana valentine, Jay Walljasper, leda dederich, lynnika butler, overcommitment, politics of spontaneity, rps, skype, stephan rechtschaffen, time, tokyo, utne reader
This thing called time: Tokyo time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last two posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper and Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time. In the same […]
Tags: africa, japan, Jay Walljasper, lynnika butler, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader
This thing called time part 2
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last post I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper. Accompanying Jay’s article is a bold headline that reads “How to Expand Time”. […]
Tags: africa, Jay Walljasper, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader
How old are your ideals?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind… Nobody grows old by merely a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. (Poet Samuel Ullman, from his poem ‘Youth’, as quoted in Gods and Soldiers, the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.) How old are your ideals? For […]
Tags: africa, gods and soldiers, questions, samuel ullman, youth
Questions are the lasers of illumination
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Creativity & innovation
Recently I attended a luncheon at the annual CSTD (Canadian Society for Trainingand Development) / IFTDO (International Federation of Training and Development Organizations) international conference. Around me were professional trainers of all sorts. Being a born and bred trainer my antennae was up and my ears tuned. I’d listened to Peter Senge and Romeo Dallaire […]
Tags: cstd, iftdo, learning, peter senge, question, romeo dallaire, training & development
Musings on Africa; cookie dough, screech owls, bumper cars & matatus
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Back in chilly, wet Vancouver. Remembering. Recent musings from Africa. I watched some weaverbirds making nests while running on the treadmill the other morning. Picking up twigs from the children’s playground they industriously wove them together. I marvel that they make 5-6 nests for every one they use (better protection). I especially marvel that the […]
Tags: africa, bumper cars, kenya, tanzania, uganda, united nations, weaver bird
Lulled to sleep in a mosquito net
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Enroute home from Nairobi to Vancouver. I’ve switched one cocoon (mosquito net encased bed) for another (airplane). Sleeping within a mosquito net is like: – going to bed in a fairy’s nest – entering a butterfly’s silken home – entering a den of cotton candy – being free and cocooned simultaneously Where are you free […]
Tags: africa, cocoon, free, kenya, mosquito net, united nations
I believe in hope
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, Travel
Tomorrow I leave Nairobi for home. As I get ready for the 24 hour marathon journey a pause to think about my time here……. I believe that hope has a home. It lives in small places, fanned by the winds of change. I believe that hope is our compass. Without it we’re lost in the […]
Tags: africa, change management, kenya, nairobi, united nations